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INDEPENDENT CHINESE DOCUMENTARY
FROM THE STUDIO TO THE STREET |
| By: |
Luke Robinson |
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Electronic book text |
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1137271221 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781137271228 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
7 September, 2012 |
| Description: |
The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in relation to one of its central principles: xianchang, or being 'on the scene'. |
| Synopsis: |
In the past twenty years, China has witnessed the flowering of an independent documentary cinema characterized by a particular verite aesthetic. Independent Chinese Documentary traces the roots of this style back to the 1980s, and the gradual abandonment of studio-based filmmaking, dominant during the Maoist era, for shooting live and on location. Known in Chinese as xianchang - or being on 'the scene' - this documentary practice is partly distinguished by its embrace of the contingent. Through a series of synoptic case studies, this book considers the different ways in which contingency manifests in independent Chinese documentary; the practical and aesthetic challenges its mediation presents for individual film directors; and the reasons for the quality's significance, set against the backdrop of China's ongoing postsocialist transition, and the consequences of this process for the very act of documentary representation itself. |
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UK |
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Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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